W2k Fax Not Working

I'm logged on w/FULL Admin rights, although, not on any netwk. I'm using a 3Com 56K FaxModem. I've chked the Fax Management under Cntrl Panel and everything seems to be set correctly. Now, when I send a fax, it just sits on "Initializing ".

Hep Me,

George Lea

 

With the combination of your daylight savings time issue and this one, I wonder if you have problems with some system files or junk files. Try the following which may clear up the problems but at worst will smooth the operation of your system. So these in order

- Open My Computer, right-click each drive, select properties and then disk cleanup. Let it run and then delete what it finds. Do this for each drive/partition.
- delete all temporary internet files and cookies via your browser
- start~run~cmd and then chkdsk x: /r (where "x" is any disk or partition you have and do them all). Reboot when needed.
- download and run both ad-aware and spybot to get rid of spyware/malware. Both have recent versions and recent ref file updates so if you have the apps but older than a couple of months, get new copies.
- start~run~sfc /scannow
- if you don't already have SP3 loaded, download it and after you have it on your PC, install it. Don't do the install over the internet.

 

Newt,

Thanks much for the assist. One question though. Re: dwnloading SP3 and NOT installing from the web. That's precisely what I wanted to do, so I wouldn't have to download it (On Dialup, no less) all over again, but I never could figure out how to do it, or it never gave me such an option. Can you advise me on where I missed the boat on that? Also, is it pretty much the same trick for all the other apps that are set up the same way these days. I hate that!

Tanx,

George

 

Fax Fix Didn't Fix it

Newt,

I've just now retried my fax driver after all the fix suggestions. (SP3, Chkdisk, etc...), and it's still not working. Any suggestions?

Tanx,

George